What do you think about life on Mars?

The term "flowing water" is a bit misleading. It's not like a trickling stream, but more like an expanding and shrinking patch of moist sand. The water is also a heavy brine mixture; extremely salty, which is not suitable for Earth-based forms of life.

That said, there are very extreme-loving forms of life called extremophiles that can make a living in exceedingly dry & salty environments. The tardigrade is a good example. It has also been proven through lab experiments in Germany that lichens and cyanobacteria could survive and even thrive under environments identical to that found at or near the surface of Mars (and at the time of this experiment, the water content on Mars was thought to be at much lower levels than more recent discoveries are proving).

It's possible that life could have hitched a ride to Mars through some kind of Panspermia-like process; life embedded into Earth-rock being blasted off of our planet by an asteroid impact and ultimately "contaminating" Mars with life. In this regard, the discovery of life on Mars wouldn't surprise me the least. What I would find fascinating is a discovery of life on Mars that can be proven to have derived independently, having no relation whatsoever to Earth-based life.

Surface life is still unlikely as the water likely flows about 1% of a Mars year and the temperature 90% of the rest of the year is colder than -40 f = -40 c, but microscopic life may be common a kilometer below the surface of Mars, and even deeper.

Boring.

And a survey of internet sites and their comments reveals that most people think the same way. Apart from their crappy "live streaming" which apparently dropped out, repeatedly, during the broadcast, some networks discarded the "major announcement" and cut to Putin's speech, the weather, or some other obviously more useful topic instead. It's hard to believe that reputable engineers and scientists actually still work at this fantasy club called nasa. Honestly, they've lost the plot.

Wake up nasa, before your budget disappears altogether.

Cheers!

If there is free-flowing water below the surface, then perhaps there could be microbial life. However, it's highly unlikely. But water on the surface is great, never-the-less.

Now, if we could just start the reactor, then Mars would be a paradise.

life on mars has been very rude to me in the past and i do not want anything to do with them quite frankly

Very unlikely. Too hostile an environment for life to exist.

Microbes underground. At the surface they will be disinfected by UV radiation

I'm enjoying it, but the nightlife is a bit dull.

no no no. the soil of mars is very toxic